In 2025, Gorica and Nova Gorica share the title of European Capital of Culture with the GO!2025 project, created to highlight the common heritage, intertwined traditions, and histories that unite two cities that belong to two states but are bound by a single identity. This is the context in which Ars Sine Finibus, an initiative conceived by Robert Princic and Matjaž Četrtič, comes to life, transforming the vineyards of Collio and Brda into a permanent art park. Young Italian and Slovenian artists, called to confront the theme of sustainability, worked together using natural materials and creative languages.
The heart of the project is the intervention of artist Marco Nereo Rotelli, to whom we owe So(g)no, a twin work composed of two multisensory spheres 4 meters in diameter, made of COR-TEN steel and placed 15 kilometers apart, one in Italy and one in Slovenia, straddling the border. The spheres, inspired by the shape of a grape, become houses of language, inlaid with poetic texts and works of art. Inside, thanks to the involvement of poets Aleš Šteger (Slovenia) and Valerio Magrelli (Italy), the public will have a participatory and immersive experience.
The path, also enriched by the installations of the young artists, winds on foot between roads and vineyards, connecting Giasbana (San Floriano del Collio, IT) and Kojsko (Brda, SLO), symbolically returning the image of a territory united again through art, agriculture and environment.
Inside the spheres, Friulian artist Giorgio Celiberti exhibits 25 ceramics that make up a sort of “Via Lucis,” where informal is transformed into natural form. The encounter between global art and local culture is thus celebrated.
The project also has a scientific accent thanks to the contribution of Riccardo Valentini, one of the pioneers of terrestrial carbon flux measurements who coordinated a global network of more than 600 flux towers (FLUXNET) placed in different ecosystems around the world.
The sound experience that spreads in the spheres bears the signature of Alessio Bertallot, musician and DJ, who composed Remota, an audio work that weaves the poems of Magrelli and Šteger into fragments and distant voices, barely perceptible as human communications between distant places.
’Ars Sine Finibus’ is first and foremost an under-35 competition for young artists selected by public call from Italian and Slovenian academies. They are tasked with shaping installations made of environmentally sustainable materials, combining creativity and environmental sensitivity.
The art installations will become an integral part of the vineyard landscape even beyond 2025, transforming the vineyards into open-air art galleries.
At the heart of the project is the vision of two entrepreneurs Robert Princic and Matjaž Četrtič, both born in 1975 and raised a few miles apart but divided by the border. For years they have been working together to build initiatives that transform that dividing line into a generative border, a place to imagine new futures and shape what seemed impossible.
“Tearing down a border that, after all, never really existed except on maps: that’s what we do every day, in our viticulture, in our relationships with the Italian and Slovenian families with whom we share the rows, and now also with art,” they say. “We are proud to partner, once again, for Ars Sine Finibus. Supporting young people and contributing to cross-border culture is a responsibility for us, but also an opportunity. Throughout 2025 we will continue to open our doors to cultural projects through GO!2025, because we believe that wine can be a tool for dialogue, just like art.”
The project is implemented with support from the GO!2025 Small Projects Fund of the Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia Program.
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